APEC protesters: important legal advice

If you’re planning to protest while the APEC legislation still stands, take note of the advice from Human Rights Monitors (I got this as a handout at the SULS APEC talk).

Some highlights:

• There is no legal obligation to tell the public where the red areas are…
• The legislation does not appear to provide a limit on how far a person can be escorted from the green area…
• No criminal convictions are necessary to be on the list. It is only necessary that the Police Commissioner satisfy himself that a particular person would pose serious threats…

Given the good-natured protests thus far, police concerns have hardly been warranted, and a please explain might be in order as to why their fears were even remotely believable to begin with.

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